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Data Sharing for Sustainable Building Assessment

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posted on 2012-01-01, 00:00 authored by Tajin Biswas, Ramesh KrishnamurtiRamesh Krishnamurti

Sustainable design assessment requires information, which is aggregated from different phases of a building design, and evaluated according to criteria specified in a ‘sustainable building rating system.’ In the architecture engineering and construction (AEC) domain much of the necessary information is available through open source data standards such as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). However, no single standard that provides support for sustainability assessment completely suffices as a data structure. This paper explores the augmentation of the Construction Operations Building information exchange (COBie) model, as an intermediary data structure, to bridge between requirements of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and a building information model. Development of a general framework for data sharing and information management for LEED assessments is illustrated through an implementation of a prototype using functional databases. The prototype checks and augments available data as needed, which is used to populate LEED submission templates.

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This is the accepted version of the article which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/1478-0771.10.4.555

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2012-01-01

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